Jurors heard he told the youngest, a 12-year-old, ‘let’s give you a little cuddle’ before touching her crotch under her knickers at Radio Victory in Portsmouth in 1977. The girl, although ‘relatively naive’, knew this was wrong and pushed him away, the court heard.

He also allegedly pulled the other young girl, aged 14, onto his lap and put his hand up her skirt at London’s Lyceum Theatre in 1971, while her father stood nearby.

Harris is appearing at court via video link from HMP Stafford because he claims he is too ‘ill, tired, or hungry’ to attend in person.

He denies the seven counts of indecent assault and one count of sexual assault against seven complainants.

Harris is appearing at court via video link (Picture: SWNS)

Jurors heard Harris was jailed for five years and nine months in 2014 after being convicted of sexually assaulting four victims, the youngest aged just seven, between 1968 and 1986.

Prosecutor Jonathan Rees QC told jurors that Harris ‘continues to maintain his innocence in respect of all 12 offences’ – including the ones of which he has already been convicted.

‘One notable feature of the case is that none these assaults is alleged to have happened in private – all appear, so it is alleged, to have occurred in public settings when there were other people in the near vicinity,’ Rees said.

‘It may be that you will want to consider whether Mr Harris’ celebrity status which was making him apparently so brazen.’